Penguin

by Equestria

Rating: everyone
Tags: Slice of Life
Length: 1530

Thespia has never soared through the sky

Thespia is a Pegasus pony who has been ridiculed by other Pegasi due to her inability to fly.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2017-05-21 16:50:20 UTC

Flightless

The small town of Ponyville has always something special to do. Sometimes it's even more special when have somepony to do it with you. In a house on the top of the hill, there lived a Pegasus pony. She had a sky blue coat, red mane and tail, red eyes, two drama masks and a curtain as a cutie mark, and on her back, two of the biggest wings you ever saw.

This Pegasus, however has a problem. She never learned to how fly. She had always been afraid of heights when she was a filly. All her life, she had been made fun of by her inability to fly. She had been called names like, Chicken, or Ostrich, and worst of all, Penguin. She had spent most of her fillyhood alone. Her only friends were the animals, her toys, and her imaginary friends.

She loved watching the birds and butterflies fly. There they go she thought. She ever wondered that if there was somepony out there who understands what she has to go through. She hated being made a ridicule of ponies. Earth, unicorn, and Pegasus. All laugh at her and call her names like Chicken, or Ostrich, or Penguin.

Sometimes they tease her with a song.

Penguin Penguin lays an egg

Waddles around and breaks her leg

She wishes she could run away. Little did she know that somepony was watching her. A small Pegasus with an orange coat, purple mane and tail, and a red pink and purple shield with a lighting bolt within a wing as a cutie mark. Also six mares, a grey Pegasus, two wolves, a hipogriff, a small alicorn with rainbow streaks, and two dragons. One was a small purple dragon with green spikes and green eyes. The other was a tall green dragon with brown hair and clothes.

The two wolves are a male with a purple vest with glasses and a female with pink hues a yellow shirt a brown cowboy hat poppy hair and a pink apron. The six ponies, two Pegasi, two Earth ponies, one unicorn, and one alicorn, all help spread the magic of friendship. Their map at the castle strangely called them on a mission in their own town.

The small Pegasus explained the situation. The others who noticed about the blue Pegasus, including the wall-eyed Pegasus agreed to help them. The blue Pegasus never told anypony why she never learned how to fly. She gave up talking long ago. She figured if she didn't talk nopony will know what bothers her.

Out on a walk in town, she didn't notice four Pegasi carrying two buckets flying behind her. The first two dumped the first bucket, covering her with tar. The other two dumped the second bucket, covering her with chicken feathers. The crowd of ponies stared at her.

"Chicken chicken chicken."

She felt tears in her eyes and ran away crying.

The dragons and the others were furious.

The big dragon and white alicorn came to the crowd. The ponies ran in fear, as the white alicorn glowed her horn, and shouted, "TASTE THE RAINBOW!"

In an instant the crowd had rainbow paint all over their faces. The crowd got even more scared when the dragon blew smoke at those Pegasus ponies who tarred and feathered the Pegasus.

"Come on everypony", the purple alicorn said. "Let's go find her."

The gang spread out. The two alicorns, three Pegasi, and hipogriff searched in the sky while the others were searching on the ground. They searched all over town, in the forest, and just about anywhere. But they didn't find the blue Pegasus.

They were starting to worry.

As the pink Earth pony turned a corner at the meadow, she heard a faint sound of sobbing. She listened to locate the sound. As she stopped, she saw a black and feathered blob crying.

She was overjoyed. "There she is!" She bounced up and down to the search party saying, "I found her I found her I found her I found her."

They all came to her.

She felt scared.

They're going to laugh at me I just know it.

The green dragon said, "Hey."

The blue Pegasus instantly hid behind a rock.

The female wolf whispered something in the male wolf's ear.

"Oh my", he said. "She's scared?"

The rainbow maned Pegasus got a cloud and poured rain all over the tar and feathers. She also gave the Pegasus a spin with her rainbow streak to dry her off.

The white unicorn styled the red mane and tail back into place and also gave her three green bracelets and a green short hat.

"We're so glad we found you . I'm Twilight. And this is Fluttershy, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Teric Dragon, Lighting Bliss, Dr. Wolf, Mrs. Wolf, Silver Quill, Scootaloo, Spike, and Derpy."

"So..." Spike said. "You don't talk do you?"

"Please allow me Spike", said Dr. Wolf. "Do you have a name miss?"

"Thespia", she said.

"Anything on your mind Ms. Thespia?"

She hid herself behind her wings.

"Hey, don't be scared", Teric said. "We know what it's like not being able to fly."

"We?"

Thespia looked at Teric, Spike and Scootaloo. She saw that Teric and Spike had no wings while Scootaloo only hovered an inch off the ground.

"But I thought I was the only one."

Thespia explained about her fear of heights. She also told them how she got her cutie mark when she was 15 years old. Her very first play was when she was in a small theater.

She felt much better knowing that she had real friends. Even Derpy told her about how her eyes make her not the best flyer.

Thespia was very happy.

Learn to fly

Thespia had a great time spending with her new friends. One day, while out on a walk, she noticed Rainbow Dash, Twilight, Fluttershy, and Teric, were discussing something, but she couldn't make out what they were saying.

She walked up to them.

"Hi guys", she said.

"Well just the pony I want to see", said Rainbow.

"What do you want to see me for?" Thespia asked with a confused face.

"I'm teaching you how to fly so you can be as awesome as me" Dash said puffing out her chest.

Thespia felt a little scared and hid behind Teric's tail.

Soon after that all of Thespia's friends were there to watch her fly, including Mrs. Wolf.

Dash gave Thespia a few coaching methods on how to properly lift off the ground. Thespia flapped her wings, hearing her friends (well most of them) giving her words of encouragement.

But no matter what Thespia kept looking down and stopped and fell to the ground.

Lastly, Thespia just shouted, "I can't do it!"

Thespia ran off crying ignoring her friends pleads to come back.

Her friends spread out to find her in every nook and cranny in Ponyville. Mrs. Wolf had an idea on where she might be and went off on her own.

She went to the forest and heard sobbing from a nearby tree. There sat Thespia in uncontrollable crying.

"Oh thank goodness I found you", Mrs. Wolf said smiling warmly.

Thespia turned to see her.

"I knew you'd come here."

"Why Mrs. Wolf?" asked Thespia.

"Because this is where me and my husband come when things start to bother us."

"Hey guys", they heard somepony shout.

They looked up to see it was Lighting Bliss.

"Mrs. Wolf found her."

"Well done my lady", Dr. Wolf said giving her a kiss on the cheek.

Twilight said, "We were so worried about you."

Thespia felt better knowing that she had friends who really care about her.

"Hey come on", Lighting Bliss said. "Let's head down to that new diner."

Thespia knew that someday she would have to fly to make sure she doesn't get into danger. But for now, she'll have to enjoy her friends company.

The next day, Thespia was walking through the woods. She heard a growling sound. It sounded like a wolf. She was a bit concerned.

"Doctor? Mrs. Wolf?"

She turned to a pair of glowing green eyes staring at her.

"Timber Wolf."

She turned and ran. She ran and ran until she realized she was at the edge of a cliff. With no way to escape, she decided to jump. Little did she know that Lighting Bliss was flying by.

"Thespia? Oh no guys she jumped she jumped."

"Thespi!" Derpy screamed. They all raced down to the cliff hoping to see if there was any sign of Thespia. Silver Quill kept a look out for anything that might of got her.

Teric said, "If anything happens to her I'll never forgive myself."

Dr. Wolf smiled. "Don't worry. We'll find her."

They found nothing, but then they heard someone say, "Hi guys."

"Thespia, is that you?" Teric asked.

"I'm up here Teri."

They couldn't believe their eyes. They saw that Thespia was flying.

"Aw yeah!" Dash said.

"I knew you could do it", Lighting beamed.

"Thanks Mrs. Bliss."

From that moment on, everypony in Ponyville called Thespia Swan because she flies with beauty and grace.